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The number of schoolchildren affected by COVID-19-related school closures soared by 38 percent in November, placing significant strain on the learning progress and well-being of an additional 90 million students globally. UNICEF

Welcoming delegates back to the General Assembly Hall for the first in-person plenary meeting since March of this year, General Assembly President Tijjani Muhammad-Bande said efforts made by member states "are critical as we begin the Decade of Action and Delivery to implement the Sustainable Development Goals, or as it is likely to become, the decade of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic." UNIFEED

Launching a new report on zoonotic diseases, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Inger Andersen, said, “we were warned that the current pandemic was not a matter of if but when. And it is a human failing that we predict, but we do not prepare.” UNIFEED

UN Refugee Agency UNHCR and partners are racing against time to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in South Sudan, Africa’s youngest country, recovering from a civil war that forced millions of people to flee their homes and one of the continent’s largest humanitarian crises. UNHCR

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the respiratory disease Novel Coronavirus, is not yet an official Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) but warned that it is an emergency in China. WHO

Adjourning a meeting of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee until tomorrow as it seeks more information, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “if we're going to keep the world safe, transparency is number one.” WHO

In 2018, over 140,000 people, mainly children, died from measles globally according to new World Health Organization (WHO) and United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates. UNICEF and partners are conducting measles vaccination campaigns in the hardest-hit areas as well as providing medical supplies for treatment. UNICEF

The World Health Organization (WHO) and football’s world governing body, FIFA, today agreed a four-year collaboration to promote healthy lifestyles through football globally. WHO

Local authorities in South Sudan are pleading with citizens to actively engage in environmental clean-ups so as to avoid unsightly streets and disease outbreaks. UNMISS

World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, took a first-hand look at response efforts to save lives and protect health for the people in Beira, the city hardest hit by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique. WHO